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| Jadis JA30 - Quad ESL63 .. 4,8 or 16ohms? The ESL 63 needs more power than the S-30 can provide- at a minimum you need the M-60s. | |
| OPamps still inferior to discrete circuits? So far in opamps the best I have seen for audio is made by Dan Kennedy:www.diyfactory.com/data/Great_River_Opamp2.pdf It is built up from discreet components. | |
| Jadis JA30 - Quad ESL63 .. 4,8 or 16ohms? The Quad 63 has always been a great match with our M-60 and MA-1 amplifiers. The speaker has an impedance peak in the bass that is well over 40 ohms and many amplifiers, especially transistors, don't make a lot of power at that impedance. OTLs, OT... | |
| "O Perfect Preamp, wherefore art thou?" I've yet to see a preamp that runs single-ended, but then can be balanced in the future... what we are really talking about here is a balanced preamp that can run single-ended for now.Most balanced preamps can do that.So- does this mean you want t... | |
| Musicians? I started playing the piano when I was three. Never really took to it until much later- when analog synthesis came along.I was stunned when I heard native American flute for the first time. Later a friend gave me one and 6 months later I finally r... | |
| VPI Scout- motor pops in speakers when turned off Usually a 0.01uf 600V cap placed across the power switch terminals is all that is needed to deal with this problem. That cap should not cost more than a dollar... we have them if anyone needs them. | |
| Tone Arm Mass In the old days you could get non-magnetic weights for the tone arm so you could take care of this problem. You could mount them between the cartridge and the headshell or on top of the headshell. I've not seen anything like that in years, but it ... | |
| The first-best-last analog item you ever bought My first real foray into reel to reel was an Ampex 350 transport with a pair of 351 electronics. I still have it. I've seen it eat a lot of newer tape machines for breakfast. I am certain it is by no means the best tape machine out there, but it w... | |
| impedance vs sensitivity Blindjim, if I understand correctly, the Sonata IIIs have a substantial 4 ohm region in the bass, and 8 ohms (nominally) across the rest of the range. A tube amp is going to struggle with that 4 ohm region unless there is some provision made for t... | |
| Phono stage with volume control? Jeff, that is essentially what our preamps are. We interjected enough switching to allow the AUX inputs to use the final stage of the phono as a line section. You might be able to find a used MP-3 for that price. They are completely balanced, just... | |
| Tube-friendly speakers Roblanger, all the Vandersteen 2 varients are tube-friendly. I know the Dali Mega-line is but I am not familiar with their smaller models.Tvad, in the case of the Merlin, the impedance swing is well within the capabilities of almost any tube ampli... | |
| Need suggestion on tube amplifier with XLR inputs I've yet to see any amplifier that is low power on one side and high on the other.We make a stereo 30/w channel amp called the S-30 and a several monoblocks. If you put the mids all in series our smallest monoblock, the M-60, may well make enough ... | |
| Need suggestion on tube amplifier with XLR inputs It sounds like you ideally you'd like a pair of amps that have lots of power on one channel, and just a little on the other -so you can run the high power on the mids, and the low power on the tweeter? | |
| Floorstanders designed to be against the wall? Hi Tvad, the T-1 has a 20Hz cutoff, the T-3 a 22 Hz cutoff (although I had mine made up to cut off at 20 Hz), the T-5 cuts off at 32 Hz and its hard to say what the Hartsfield does, since it is so woofer-dependent. I've seen it doing very well dow... | |
| Tube-friendly speakers Silverline used to be tube friendly some years ago, but the current stuff is not. There are two design paradigms used in speakers, and the Silverline stuff now subscribes to the idea that an amplifier must be capable of constant voltage, regardles... |